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adjective

Salient adj.

Moving by leaps or springs; leaping; bounding; jumping. "Frogs and salient animals."

Shooting out or up; springing; projecting. "He had in himself a salient, living spring of generous and manly action."

Hence, figuratively, forcing itself on the attention; prominent; conspicuous; noticeable. "He (Grenville) had neither salient traits, nor general comprehensiveness of mind."

(Math. & Fort.) Projecting outwardly; as, a salient angle; opposed to reentering.

(Her.) Represented in a leaping position; as, a lion salient.

Salient angle. See Salient, a., 4.

Salient polygon (Geom.), a polygon all of whose angles are salient.

Salient polyhedron (Geom.), a polyhedron all of whose solid angles are salient.

Salient adj. (Fort.) A salient angle or part; a projection.

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Etymology of 'Salient'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Salient" Quotes from Famous Books

... this it was easy to conceive it deepened and intensified in him a hundred-fold. Moreover, in his youth and growing-time, the influence itself was stronger, the suggestive aspect of the town more salient. If you read even now, on the ground itself, the story of the settlement and the first century's life of Salem and the surrounding places, a delicate suffusion of the marvellous will insensibly steal over ...

— A Study Of Hawthorne • George Parsons Lathrop

... reader's convenience we must note the salient points; but grudge to do it. Salient points, now mostly wrapt in Orcus, and terrestrially interesting only to the spiders,—except on an occasion of this kind, when part of them happens to stick to the history of a memorable man, To us they are mere bubblings-up ...

— History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Volume V. (of XXI.) • Thomas Carlyle

... employed in one of the processes of the photographic manufacture, but the nature of the process it did not concern Denton to understand. The most salient fact to his mind was that it had to be conducted in ruby light, and as a consequence the room in which he worked was lit by one coloured globe that poured a lurid and painful illumination about ...

— Tales of Space and Time • Herbert George Wells

... of the day Wilmshurst heard the salient facts in connection with the raider's career. She was the Hamburg-Amerika intermediate liner Porfurst, who, after being armed and camouflaged, had contrived to escape the cordon of patrol-boats in the North Atlantic. For three months ...

— Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force • Percy F. Westerman

... but brightness not comparable to that of the actual scene. The objects are sharply defined; some of them are salient, and others insignificant and dim, but by separate efforts I can take a visualised inventory of ...

— Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development • Francis Galton

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